Wonderland

Today while wandering in a park, I met the Cheshire Cat.

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

Value

It is always good for a person to know what they are worth.

Our new babies!

Our cows finally got here today! Two six month old female belted galloways ("belties" or as I prefer "oreo cows"). They are the cutest little buggers. So sweet. Jason wants to name them Laverne and Shirley.

Sticks can walk?!

We had a cool walking stick hanging upside down on the ceiling of our front porch the other day. It looked like sticks just stuck together. Awesome. Right out of the Lord of the Rings or something. A little group of sticks come to life to make up a creature. It was a good seven or eight inches long. Had some nasty looking pincers so we didn't try to get this one into a jar. ;)

Schnappeh Head!

I was mowing the lawn one afternoon and happened to glance down towards the pond. I noticed something moving around down there and stopped for a closer look. There was a big snapping turtle crusing along in the grass, moving from one pond to another. I yelled for Jason to come and see. Being the good little Californians that we are, Jason grabbed a rake handle and we went running down to the turtle to play with it. Jason poked it with the handle. It was amazing how fast this thing whipped its head around and grabbed the end of the handle. Scared us both crazy. So we flipped it over, ever seen the underside of a snapping turtle? But we were nice and flipped it upright again. After poking at it a bit more we left it alone so it could carry on its journey. And Jason only lost one finger this time!

Missouri Traffic Jam

Morning traffic can be brutal around here!